Christopher Kiely#
| Membership Number: | 5062 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://engineering.lehigh.edu/faculty/christopher-j-kiely |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - date Professor of Electron Microscopy and Catalysis, School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, UK
- 2002 - date Harold B. Chambers Senior Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, PA, USA
- 1999 - 2002 Professor of Materials Chemistry, Departments of Engineering and Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK
- 1997 - 1999 Reader, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Liverpool, UK
- 1994 - 1997 Senior Lecturer, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Liverpool, UK
- 1989 - 1994 Lecturer, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Liverpool, UK
- 1986 - 1989 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into ordered superstructures
- High angle annular dark field imaging of catalyst materials
- Composition analysis of nanoparticles by EDS and EELS spectrum imaging
- Structural characterisation of oxide-on-oxide catalyst structures
- Supported gold-palladium alloy catalysts for direct H2O2 production
- Aberration corrected analytical electron microscopy of nanoparticulate materials
- Supported gold catalysts for CO oxidation
- Supported gold single atom catalysts for vinyl monomer production
- Vanadium phosphorus oxide catalysts for maleic anhydride production
- Biosynthesis of semiconductor quantum dot materials
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Academia Europaea, (elected 2019)
- Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America, (elected 2017)
- Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, (elected 2015)
- Harold B. Chambers Senior Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University (awarded 2010)
- Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Cardiff, UK (2009 - 2016)
- Innovator Award, NanoTECH Briefs, (awarded 2005)
- Personal Chair in Materials Chemistry, Liverpool University, (awarded 1999)
